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Automattic Releases WordPress Plugin for Facebook’s Instant Articles
by Sarah Gooding, WordPress Tavern
March 7, 2016
Today the WordPress.com VIP team released a plugin for Facebook’s Instant Articles, which will be open to any publisher starting April 12, 2016. Automattic partnered with [Read more..]

Automatically make phone numbers clickable on smart phones and tablets
I just came a cross a plugin for WordPress sites called WP Phone Number.
This is a simple but ingenious little plugin that does what it says it can do without any fuss or fanfare.
There are no settings for this plugin. Simply [Read more..]

For some time, I have been using Contact Form 7 on a number of WordPress sites together with one of the noCaptcha-reCaptcha plugins from wordpress.org.
However, after a recent update of Contact Form 7, the pages no longer showed any Captcha form at all.
After some investigation and a bit of trial [Read more..]

How to Scan Your WordPress Site for Potentially Malicious Code
WPBeginner.com
August 11th, 2014
If you don’t like the video or need more instructions:
Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC)
Theme Authenticity Checker is a free plugin that scans all of your WordPress theme files for potentially [Read more..]

WordPress has become increasingly popular as a platform for creating highly customizable responsive websites. And of course this makes it increasingly attractive as a target for hackers and spammers.
To help guard against this, here are a couple of plugins that help to at least minimize unknown [Read more..]

You’ve put in a lot of effort to customize your site with added CSS and HTML.
But will it survive an update to your WordPress theme? Here’s how to avoid that.
First, there is a great little plugin called MP Customizer Backups by Mint Plugins (available from the WordPress.org Plugins [Read more..]